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Aquila Resources is developing a gold project in Michigan. Back Forty is a 1 million oz resource (2 gpt), along with
Silver: 12 million oz (sold as part of a streaming deal).
Zinc: 1 billion lbs
Copper: 110 million lbs
Lead: 74 million lbs... more

09/30/2016

Analysis

Added: Romios Gold Resources Inc

Romios Gold has a large property (188,000 acres) in the Golden Triangle near the Galore Creek project. They are drilling two projects (Newmont Lake and Trek) and have had some success. They have discovered copper, gold, and silver. It is still too early... more

09/30/2016

Analysis

Added: Greatland Gold Plc

Greatland Gold is a London based stock with exploration properties in Australia. Both their Ernest Giles (65,000 acres) and Havieron (32,000 acres) are large, but have very little exploration. They both have had a few drill holes and show potential. They... more

09/28/2016

Analysis

Updated: Ximen Mining Corp

Ximen Mining has an early exploration project (Brett) in British Colombia that looks promising. They have a good management team that is good at marketing their company. The stock surged in early 2014, but has subsequently crashed as they ran out of cash. more

09/28/2016

Analysis

Added: Ely Gold Royalties

Ely Gold and Minerals has about 15 exploration projects and 15 royalties. The royalties include 1.5% to 3% NSR deals. They do not have any JV deals or are exploring aggressively. They seems to be waiting for one of their NSR deals to begin paying out.... more

09/27/2016

Analysis

Added: Eskay Mining Corp.

Eskay Mining has 130,000 acres next to the large Seabridge Gold Kerr project in the Golden Triangle (British Columbia, Canada). They have 100% ownership of Corey (48,000 acres), and 80% ownership of SIB (82,000 acres). On their website the do not have... more

09/26/2016

Analysis

Updated: TMAC Resources Inc.

TMAC Resources has an excellent advanced gold project (Hope Bay) in Canada. It is a 6 million oz resources (8 gpt) that is highly economic (40% after-tax IRR) and funded to production. The capex is $334 million and $249 has already been spent.... more

09/26/2016

Analysis

Updated: Trilogy Metals Inc

Trilogy Metals (formerly Novacopper) is primarily a copper developer. They have two large copper projects in Alaska. Their Bornite discovery has 6 billion lbs of copper, although low grade, and not likely to get developed anytime soon. Their Arctic... more

09/26/2016

Analysis

Added: Maverix Metals Inc

Maverix Metals is a new royalty company created by Pan American Silver, who owns 54%. They have 13 royalty properties. Two of which are generating income of around $4 million. It's not cheap with a FD market cap of $85 million. Investors expect it to be... more

09/25/2016

Analysis

Updated: Emx Royalty Corp

Eurasian Minerals is a global project generator with 42 projects (about 10 JVs) in about 10 countries. With a FD market cap of $93 million, the upside is somewhat constrained without any near-term cash flow projects. They have a capable CEO (David Cole)... more

09/25/2016

Analysis

Updated: Patagonia Gold Plc

Patagonia Gold is a company with potential. They began producing in 2012 at Lomada de Leiva. They stopped production in 2016 and are now starting up production at Cap Oeste, where they have 1.2 million oz (including silver). They are only planning to... more

09/25/2016

Analysis

Added: Great Bear Resources Ltd

Great Bear Resources has two early exploration gold projects in Canada. Neither of which are a discovery or have had much drilling. They have a 50% interest in the BA property (42,000 acres) in the golden triangle. It is next to IDM's property, which is... more

09/24/2016

Analysis

Updated: Marathon Gold Corp

Marathon Gold has an exciting discovery in Newfoundland, Canada. Their Valentine Lake project has a 10 mile trend on 60,000 acres and is already a 1.2 million oz open pit deposit at 2.2 gpt. This could easily double in size. The exploration potential... more

09/24/2016

Analysis

Updated: Novo Resources Corp

Novo Resources is an exciting stock with significant upside potential. Everything will depend on drilling results and exploration success. The first 16,000 meters of drilling found 500,000 oz at 1.5 gpt. They have large land holdings of 400,000 acres in... more

09/24/2016

Analysis

Added: Makena Resources

Makena Resources has a gold project in the golden triangle in British Columbia. They have a 50% interest in the Clone property (750 acres). It has a few high grade drill holes from 2009 to 2011, such as 20 meters at 7 gpt and 8 meters at 30 gpt. They... more

09/23/2016

Analysis

Updated: Xtierra Inc

Xtierra Inc. has a late stage silver project in Mexico. The problem is that the recently released PEA has a post-tax IRR of only 13%. Plus, the capex was $100 million, which is probably too much to finance 1.4 million oz of annual production. It could... more

09/23/2016

Analysis

Updated: Yorbeau Resources

Yorbeau Resources is a project generator in Canada. They recently gave Kinross a 4 yr option to purchase their Rouyn project for $25 million. That will give them financing to explore their other 14 projects. If Kinross backs out, they can easily sell it... more

09/23/2016

Analysis

Updated: Inventus Mining Corp

Inventus Mining appears to have a gold discovery (Pardo property) in Ontario, Canada. Their stock jumped from 3 cents a share to 35 cents after the discovery in 2013. Now it's back to 17 cents. Is this a big discovery? Perhaps, and it is placer gold... more

09/23/2016

Analysis

Updated: Inventus Mining Corp

Inventus Mining appears to have a gold discovery (Pardo property) in Ontario, Canada. Their stock jumped from 3 cents a share to 35 cents after the discovery in 2013. Now it's back to 17 cents. Is this a big discovery? Perhaps, and it is placer gold... more

09/23/2016

Analysis

Added: RJK Explorations Ltd

RJK Exploration has two early exploration projects in Canada. Blackwater is three properties totaling 62,000 acres in British Columbia. They are all near New Gold's 10 milion oz Blackwater deposit. They also have a 10,000 acre project in Ontario (Goldie)... more

09/22/2016

Analysis

Updated: Premier Gold Mines Ltd.

Premier Gold Mines will be a mid-tier producer once their deal for Yamana Gold's Mercedes mine closes in late September. They paid $123 million, plus 6 million shares, for the 800,000 oz Mercedes deposit. That seems high, but they expect to produce 90,000 more

09/22/2016

Analysis

Updated: Inventus Mining Corp

Inventus Mining appears to have a gold discovery (Pardo property) in Ontario, Canada. Their stock jumped from 3 cents a share to 35 cents after the discovery in 2013. Now it's back to 17 cents. Is this a big discovery? Perhaps, and it is placer gold... more

09/22/2016

Analysis

Updated: Inventus Mining Corp

Inventus Mining appears to have a gold discovery (Pardo property) in Ontario, Canada. Their stock jumped from 3 cents a share to 35 cents after the discovery in 2013. Now it's back to 17 cents. Is this a big discovery? Perhaps, and it is placer gold... more

09/22/2016

Analysis

Updated: Shanta Gold Ltd.

Shanta Gold is a producer in Tanzania. Their open pit Luikda mine is a 1.2 million oz resource at 4 gpt. Current production is 85,000 oz at $900 all-in costs. Thus, they are profitable with cash flow. They have $70 million in debt and $30 million in cash. more

09/22/2016

Analysis

Added: Serengeti Resources Inc

Serengeti Resources has a very large copper/gold project (Kwanika) in British Columbia. It's already 5 billion lbs of copper and 2.5 million oz of gold. Plus, they recently hit a monster hole of 438 meters at .7% copper and .8 gpt gold. They also have... more

09/21/2016

Analysis

Updated: Novagold Resources Inc.

NovaGold Resources has a huge advanced gold project in Alaska. Donlin is a 45 million oz resource at 2.2 gpt, which is one of the highest grade large open pit mines in the world. They are projecting cash costs of $600 per oz. However, mining will not... more

09/21/2016

Analysis

Updated: Galane Gold Ltd

Galane Gold appears to have the management team and properties to be successful. They have a small FD market cap of $16 million, yet are producing 35,000 oz at Mupane (an open pit mine at 2 gpt). All-in costs around $1100 per oz. Plus, they recently... more

09/21/2016

Analysis

Added: Troymet Exploration Corp.

Troymet Exploration has three early exploration projects. Redhill in British Columbia is copper/gold. Wildcat in Utah is high grade gold. Golden Eagle in British Columbia is high grade gold. At this time, none of them appear to be exciting, although that... more

09/20/2016

Analysis

Updated: MAG Silver Corp

Mag Silver has an excellent late stage project in Mexico. Their Juanicipio project is a JV with Fresnillo and they have a 44% interest. Production should begin in 2017 and it has a 15 year mine life (likely to be increased). Mag's share will be about 5... more

09/20/2016

Analysis

Updated: Shanta Gold Ltd.

Shanta Gold is a producer in Tanzania. Their Luikda mine is a 1 million oz resource at 5 gpt. Current production is 85,000 oz at $1000 all-in costs. Thus, they are profitable with cash flow. They have $70 million in debt and $30 million in cash. Once... more

09/20/2016

Analysis

Updated: Shanta Gold Ltd.

Shanta Gold is a producer in Tanzania. Their open pit Luikda mine is a 1.2 million oz resource at 4 gpt. Current production is 85,000 oz at $1000 all-in costs. Thus, they are profitable with cash flow. They have $70 million in debt and $30 million in... more

09/20/2016

Analysis

Updated: Shanta Gold Ltd.

Shanta Gold is a producer in Tanzania. Their open pit Luikda mine is a 1.2 million oz resource at 4 gpt. Current production is 85,000 oz at $900 all-in costs. Thus, they are profitable with cash flow. They have $70 million in debt and $30 million in cash. more

09/20/2016

Analysis

Added: Crown Mining Corp

Crown Mining has a large copper deposit (2 billion lbs) in California. With a $2 million FD market cap, it is very cheap for such a large deposit (Lights Creek). They also have three early exploration gold and silver projects, although they are all small. more

09/19/2016

Analysis

Updated: Corvus Gold Inc

Corvus Gold has two promising JVs in Alaska, where they own 45% to 49% as an equity partner. But those are just a plus. The real value of Corvus is their North Bullfrog property in Nevada. It has three known deposits, plus several drill targets on 17,000... more

09/19/2016

Analysis

Updated: Globex Mining Enterprises Inc

Globex Mining is a project generator that has been around for 60 years. With 147 projects (69 are precious metals) in Canada, you would think they would have some income. They have $1 million in cash and some royalty income, but very little. Their stock... more

09/19/2016

Analysis

Added: Japan Gold Corp

Japan Gold (formerly Sky Ridge Resources) is a new exploration company focused in Japan. They have 10 properties on 65,000 acres. All are early exploration, although some have had past production. They have a lot of cash ($5 million) for drilling, so... more

09/19/2016

Analysis

Added: Japan Gold Corp

Japan Gold (formerly Sky Ridge Resources) is a new exploration company focused in Japan. They have 10 properties on 65,000 acres. All are early exploration, although some have had past production. They have a lot of cash ($5 million) for drilling, so... more

09/18/2016

Analysis

Updated: Eco Oro Minerals Corp

Eco Oro Minerals (formerly Greystar Resources) recently lost their mining rights for their Angostura project (3.2 million oz). The project had a PEA with a $500 million capex, but appears to be dead. They will likely get some money back from the... more

09/18/2016

Analysis

Updated: Rockhaven Resources Ltd.

Rockhaven Resources has a high grade gold and silver discovery in the Yukon (Canada). The Klaza property is large (20,000 acres) and has 9 discovered zones to drill. It's already a 1.3 million oz gold deposit at 4 gpt at surface, plus another 27 million... more

09/18/2016

Analysis

Added: Norra Metals Corp

OK2 Minerals (formerly Gold Jubilee) has two large (combined 25,000 acres) early exploration gold/copper projects in Canada. Both are located in the Golden Triangle in British Columbia. Neither have had much exploration with very little drilling. OK2... more

09/17/2016

Analysis

Updated: Osisko Mining Corp

Osisko Mining (previously Oban Mining) acquired the Windfall Lake project in 2015 from Eagle Hill for peanuts. They also acquired Ryan Gold's properties in the deal. Windfall Lake is a high grade, 1.5 million oz resource. A PEA was completed to produce... more

09/17/2016

Analysis

Updated: Gunpoint Exploration Ltd

Gunpoint Exploration is a project generator with an advanced project in Nevada (Talapoosa). It is a 1.2 million oz (1 gpt) open pit project with 15 million oz of silver (15 gpt). Timberline has an option to obtain Talapoosa for $10 million by August 2017, more

09/17/2016

Analysis

Added: Emmerson Resources Ltd.

Emmerson Resources has two gold projects in Australia. Their Tennant Creek project is a 1.3 million oz (8 gpt) gold deposit with significant copper offsets. Evolution Mining has a 75% option and is developing it. That project has given Emmmerson a $37... more

09/16/2016

Analysis

Updated: Impact Silver Corp

Impact Silver Corp is a small producer (3 underground mines at 140 gpt). They have a good management team and have performed well, taking mines into production 24 months after discovery. That is impressive. They are also growing production and plan to... more

09/16/2016

Analysis

Updated: Impact Silver Corp

Impact Silver Corp is a small producer (3 underground mines at 140 gpt). They have a good management team and have performed well, taking mines into production 24 months after discovery. That is impressive. They are also growing production and plan to... more

09/16/2016

Analysis

Updated: NV Gold Corp

NV Gold lost the option to the Rattlesnake Hills property in Wyoming in 2015. They didn't have much left. One early exploration gold project in Switzerland and another in Nevada. However, they recently made a deal with RedStar Gold that might bring them... more

09/16/2016

Analysis

Added: Aurion Resources Ltd

Aurion Resources has several early exploration gold projects in Finland. After drilling 47 holes on Kutuvuoma (25,000 acres), they made a JV deal with B2Gold, who has a 70% option. They will also get 650,000 shares of B2Gold if the option is exercised.... more

09/15/2016

Analysis

Updated: Lara Exploration Ltd

Lara Exploration is a good project generator. The only problem with this stock is that it is not precious metals focused. However, with a higher price of gold, I would expect this company to focus more on gold. Lara has shown the ability to create JV... more

09/15/2016

Analysis

Updated: Terrax Minerals Inc.

TerraX Minerals is a project generator with a large property in Canada (Northwest Territories). They are drilling three different discoveries on their large (20,000 acre) Yellowknife property. It has 450 historical drill holes with several high grade... more

09/15/2016

Analysis

Added: Chibougamau Independent Mines Inc

Chibougamau Independent Mines has a large (23,000 acres) gold/copper exploration property in Quebec. It has 8 past producing mines and a mill. The best thing about it is the location. Also, it has a mill and exploration potential. However, it is a high... more

09/14/2016

Analysis

Updated: Taseko Mines Ltd

Taseko Mines has an advanced stage gold project (Prosperity) in British Columbia. They have a $98 million FD market cap and are forecasting production at 200,000 oz per year (adjusted for Franco Nevada gold stream) for 20 years, plus a large amount of... more

09/14/2016

Analysis

Added: Silver Spruce Resources Inc

Silver Spruce Resources has an early exploration project (Pino de Plata) in Mexico. The property (1,000 acres) has never been drilled by has had high grade surface samples. They recently raised $800,000, but they have $1.3 million in current liabilities.... more

09/13/2016

Analysis

Updated: Savary Gold Corp

Savary Gold is an exploration company in West Africa (Burkina Faso). They have a 69% JV deal with Sarama Gold on a large property (Karankasso) that looks like a mine. They already have 700,000 oz at 2 gpt, plus they have 15 miles of mineralization to... more

09/13/2016

Analysis

Updated: Sarama Resources Ltd

Sarama Resources is a project generator in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Mali). They have one flagship project: South Hounde. It is optioned to Acacia Mining (a large gold producer), who has a 75% option. South Hounde is a 2 million oz deposit... more

China Gold International is an interesting stock if you like copper. Their CSH open pit gold mine is producing 230,000 oz and has 5 million oz of resources, which makes for a long life mine. This mine alone probably gives it a future value of $1 billion,... more

09/12/2016

Analysis

Added: Azure Minerals Ltd.

Azure Minerals is an Australian based exploration company focused in Mexico. They have a 20% interest is a large copper project, with a $200 million carried interest. They also have a silver (Mesa de Plata) and gold discovery (Loma Bonita) on their 12,000 more

09/11/2016

Analysis

Updated: Chesapeake Gold Corp.

Chesapeake Gold is project generator with an awesome project. They have a huge project in Mexico (Metates) with 18 million oz of gold (1 gpt), 525 million oz of silver (15 gpt), and 4 billion lbs of zinc. With gold production reaching 750,000 oz per year, more

09/11/2016

Analysis

Updated: Torex Gold Resources Inc

Torex Gold Resources has a large late stage project (El Limon) in Mexico. It is a 4 million oz (2.6 gpt) open pit deposit. They have a $2 billion FD market cap, so most of the value is already in the stock price. El Limon began production in December... more

09/10/2016

Analysis

Updated: Newcrest Mining Ltd.

Newcrest Mining is a solid company with production of 2.4 million oz at 6 operating mines. They have low cash costs of around $600 per oz because of their copper and silver offsets, with all-in costs around $950 per oz in 2016. Their balance sheet is... more

09/10/2016

Analysis

Updated: Northern Star Resources Ltd

Northern Star Resources is a large gold producer in Western Australia. They have 5 producing mines and FD market cap of $2 billion. However, they only have 2 million oz of reserves and 9 million oz of resources. Investors seem to only care about the... more

09/10/2016

Analysis

Updated: RTG Mining Inc

RTG Mining is developing a gold project in the Philippines, where they hope to begin production in 2017 (stage 1). The Mabilo gold deposit is 750,000 oz (1.5 gpt), with high grade copper offsets making it a low cost gold mine. Stage 1 has a $17 million... more

09/10/2016

Analysis

Updated: RTG Mining Inc

RTG Mining is developing a gold project in the Philippines, where they have two large properties. The Mabilo gold deposit is 750,000 oz (1.5 gpt), with high grade copper offsets making it a low cost gold mine. Phase 1 has a $17 million capex to produce... more

09/10/2016

Analysis

Added: Silver One Resources Inc

Silver One Resources is a new exploration company. They acquired 3 early exploration projects in Mexico from First Mining Finance, who kept 7.2% ownership. All 3 properties need to be drilled to find a mine. Two of them have been drilled before in the... more

09/09/2016

Analysis

Updated: Midland Exploration Inc.

Midland Exploration is a project generator with 41 properties and 21 projects on 600,000 acres in Quebec and Ontario. They have 6 JVs (gold projects), including deals with Agnico Eagle, Osisko, and Aurizon. However, none of them are advanced projects.... more

09/09/2016

Analysis

Updated: Vast Resources Plc

Vast Resources is small gold producer in Zimbabwe. Their Pickstone/Peerless project is producing about 15,000 oz (their 50% share) at $900 per oz cash costs. It's a large deposit (3.5 million oz) with expansion potential to increase production.
Their... more

09/09/2016

Analysis

Updated: Vast Resources Plc

Vast Resources is small gold producer in Zimbabwe. Their Pickstone/Peerless project is producing about 15,000 oz (their 50% share) at $900 per oz cash costs. It's a large deposit (3.5 million oz) with expansion potential.
Their Baita Bihor mine is a... more

09/09/2016

Analysis

Added: Medgold Resources Corp

Medgold Resources has two JVs in Portugal with Centerra Gold. The Boticas (25,000 acres) and Lagares (85,000 acres) are both large properties. Centerra can obtain 70% by spending $6 million over five years. Both projects are still early exploration. This... more

09/08/2016

Analysis

Updated: Teuton Resources Corp.

Teuton Resources is a project generator in Canada (British Columbia). They have been around for a long time (1982) and have 25 projects (about 6 JVs). However, they do not have any advanced stage projects. Investors seem to like it and have bid up their... more

09/08/2016

Analysis

Updated: Ausgold Ltd

Ausgold Ltd has a interesting exploration property in western Australia. Katanning is on 500,000 acres and has already had 60,000 meters drilled. The resource size is 600,000 oz (1.2 gpt), but they have 50+ more targets to drill. They think it can be... more

09/07/2016

Analysis

Updated: Mako Mining Corp.

Golden Reign Resources has an advanced high grade (7 pgt) project in Nicaragua (San Albino). It is funded with production beginning in 2017. San Albino is already a 900,000 oz oz deposit (open pit and underground). It has excellent step-out drilling... more

09/07/2016

Analysis

Updated: Pinecrest Resources Ltd

Pinecrest Resources has a gold project (Enchi) in Ghana, West Africa. The resource size is 1.5 million oz at .65 gpt, and will likely grow in size. It is a large property (175,000 acres) with a lot of drilling targets. They completed a PEA in 2015 for a... more

09/06/2016

Analysis

Updated: Canarc Resource Corp.

Canarc Resources has an advanced project in Canada (northern British Columbia) that looks promising. Their New Polaris project is a 1.1 million oz resource, averaging 11 gpt. They have a PEA for 72,000 oz of production for 10 years with low cash costs... more

09/06/2016

Analysis

Updated: Sandspring Resources Ltd.

Sandspring Resources has a lot of potential and is undervalued. However, they will not begin production on their South American Guyana property (Toroparu) until they raise the $500 million capex (they need another $329 million). They have a 10 million oz... more

09/04/2016

Analysis

Updated: Great Panther Silver Ltd

Great Panther Silver is a mid-tier producer in Mexico. Their flagship Guanajuato mine produces 75% of their production. It only has 17 million oz of resources, but they have been very successful with exploration at Guanajuato. Great Panther is no longer... more

09/04/2016

Analysis

Updated: Guyana Goldfields Inc.

Guyana Goldfields is new mid-tier producer. Gold crashed to $1100 and this stock barely moved. It was a steal two years ago, but has increased in value from $188 million to a $1.1 billion FD market cap today. Production began in Q4 2015, with expected... more

09/03/2016

Analysis

Updated: New Gold Inc.

New Gold is an emerging major with growth prospects (although most of their growth won’t happen until 2017). It's going to be interesting to see how companies such as New Gold get valued as gold heads higher. Today their 400,000 oz of production is... more

09/03/2016

Analysis

Updated: Fresnillo Plc

Fresnillo is a major and the largest silver producer at 45 million oz per year. They plan to expand production to 65 million oz by 2018. This is a profitable company that is generating cash flow. They have large resources at 1.5 billion oz of silver and... more

09/03/2016

Analysis

Updated: Fresnillo Plc

Fresnillo is a major and the largest silver producer at 50 million oz per year. They plan to expand production to 65 million oz by 2018. This is a profitable company that is generating solid cash flow. They have large resources at 1.7 billion oz of... more

09/01/2016

Analysis

Updated: Hecla Mining Company

Hecla Mining has two large low cost high grade silver mines: Lucky Friday in Idaho and Greens Creek in Alaska. They will produce 16 million oz of silver in 2016 at cash costs around $8 per oz. Plus, Greens Creek, Casa Berardi, and San Sebastian will... more

09/01/2016

General

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